On Monday, the National Archives and Records Administration admitted to having in its possession nearly 5,400 electronic records, documents, and emails that could show that President Biden used a pseudonym while he was vice president.

NARA confirmed that the collection existed in response to an Freedom of Information Act request made by Southeastern Legal Foundation (a nonprofit constitutional law group) on June 20, 2022.

The request was for emails related to Robin Ware’s, Robert L. Peters’ and JRB Ware’s accounts. These pseudonyms were used by the 80-year old president in the White House when he served as Vice President to Barack Obama.

The Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a lawsuit against NARA on Monday for the release records. According to the group, the records may show that Biden discussed government affairs with his son Hunter Biden as well as other members of the family.

“All too frequently, public officials abuse power and use it to their own personal or political advantage. Many try to conceal it. NARA must release Biden’s 5,400 emails. This will preserve the integrity of government. Kimberly Hermann said that the American public should know what’s in them.

The group claims that NARA has “dragged their feet” since the FOIA request in June 2022 and states that no email has been produced after the government agency acknowledged the existence of the emails just days following the request.

The lawsuit on Monday revealed that, “We have searched our collection of Vice Presidential records in relation to your request [June 9,2022], and we have identified approximately 5,138 emails, 25 electronic documents and 200 pages of records potentially responsive, which must be processed to respond to your requests,” Stephannie Oriabure wrote to Southeastern Legal Foundation, the director of NARA’s archival operation division, on June 24,2022.

As part of an investigation into the role that the former vice-president played in Hunter Biden’s foreign business deals, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.), demanded earlier this month that NARA provide any records without redactions in which Joe Biden had used a pseudonym while he was vice-president.

Emails previously released by the Archives and retrieved from Hunter’s abandoned laptop reveal that Joe Biden used the email address “Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov” while he was Obama’s second-in-command and that his aide John Flynn cc’d Hunter on 10 emails containing the elder Biden’s daily schedule between May 18 and June 15, 2016.

Comer stated in a press release on August 17 that “Joe Biden claimed there was an ‘absolute wall’ between the foreign business schemes of his family and his duties as Vice-President, but evidence shows that his family was allowed to influence peddle freely.”

He added, “The National Archives should provide us with these records without redactions to help our investigation of the corruption in the Biden family.”